Jun

28

Google Releases Reinvented Wheel for Linux

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Google has released their Google Desktop for Linux. It’s nice to see them catch up with what GNOME has had built in and nicely integrated for a long time, including features such as:

  • Quick search box with integrated Web and desktop search, much like the Deskbar-applet
  • Searching Gmail and Web history much like Deskbar-applet plugins for same, and of course
  • Document and local email indexing and search, such as the one provided by both Meta-tracker and Beagle

GNOME still doesn’t submit your information to Google or phone home though, so if you miss such features (which can be very useful in fact,) go ahead and download Google Desktop’s brand new Linux version.

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4 Responses to “Google Releases Reinvented Wheel for Linux”

  1. Vincent on June 28th, 2007 3:31 pm

    I’d love to use Deskbar, but Google Desktop’s dependencies are Xubuntu-friendlier, so I’m quite content with this release.

  2. Joe’s Blog » Blog Archive » Google Desktop available for Ubuntu on June 28th, 2007 7:34 pm

    […] update:] Juha has already posted some answers about Gnome integration and […]

  3. topyli on June 28th, 2007 7:43 pm

    Vincent,

    FYI you can run GNOME applets in Xfce by using the xfce4-xfapplet-plugin: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

    Not saying you should, but you can :)

  4. Best links for June 29 | Boy in the Bands on June 29th, 2007 4:01 pm

    […] writers (here, here and here among others) note Linux users can have Google Desktop too, but not all are convinced it is either […]

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